Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies
Description
The potential application for Bitcoin-like technologies is enormous. This course covers the technical aspects of engineering secure software, system interactions with crypto-currencies, and distributed consensus for reliability.
Students interested in this course may also want to take our short professional course, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: What You Need to Know, which provides an overview of these technologies.
Prerequisites
Topics include
- Altcoins
- Bitcoin transactions
- Consensus protocols
- Cryptocurrency
- Elliptic curves
- Hash functions
- Mining strategies and incentives
- Proposed Bitcoin regulations
- Zerocoin, zerocash
Course Availability
The course schedule is displayed for planning purposes – courses can be modified, changed, or cancelled. Course availability will be considered finalized on the first day of open enrollment. For quarterly enrollment dates, please refer to our graduate education section.